A Review: BLACKWOOD #1

The Fellowship was fortunate enough to obtain a copy of BLACKWOOD #1 from Dark Horse Comics. Evan Dorkin writes, Veronica Fish draws and colors, and
Andy Fish letters and does the layouts.

Welcome to Blackwood College. It’s your normal, creepy old
college in a creepy old town. The new students are a diverse group, mostly kids
who didn’t fit in, but the dean is a creepy old guy who clearly has no time for
the newbies. When a weird dream wakes Wren and all of her roomies on the first
night, and the dean wanders past them in the night, something very weird
happens to the gang. Weirder than normal, that is.

The dean is up to something, and it might be very, very bad.
And weird, of course. This issue introduces us to a lot of characters (very
efficiently, I must say) and hints very strongly at something supernatural. And
I love how the art sets us up wonderfully for whatever might come along, with
tons of hints about dark, twisted elements in several of the characters.

This is a story opening that, like Blackwood itself, is
packed full of interesting little tidbits and hints at what might be on the
way. It’s a great start, and I look forward to seeing where it goes and how it
gets there.